Ranchi: The second wave of Covid-19 in April-May this year exposes the inability of medical facilities available in the capital and some patients must be transferred to hospitals in neighboring districts.
It was during the crisis period that the chairman of the Minister of Hemant Soren explored the possibility of adding infrastructure and health direction issued for the district administration to include 300 bed facilities in TB sanatorium in ITKI to treat covid patients.
CM also gives a three-month deadline to complete the work.
For almost eight months since its direction in April, an additional 300 bed facilities have not been made functional for various reasons.
TB Sanatorium in ITKI is managed by RAM Krishna Mission Ashram and has a capacity of 200 inpatients, including 150 dedicated to TB patients.
The hospital is one of the first installs RT-PCR testing facilities to detect the SARS-COV 2 virus during the first wave and come as the main support for the testing laboratory at the Rims when it has been overwhelmed with a large number of samples.
According to letter number 1623 (II) issued by the Office of Deputy Commissioner Ranchi on October 26, the process of regulating 150 beds in the sanatorium between sanatoriums while several beds in the woman’s ward in the hospital had been prepared with oxygen facilities.
“To ensure an unbroken power supply in the hospital, we have directed the Office of the Electrical Executive Engineer, Ranchi Division, to install the earliest 200kva transformer,” the letter rang.
The delay in resolving this facility was also raised at home by Tirkey Bandhu Mandar Mla during the winter session which had just been concluded.
It was after receiving his question that the Ministry of Health and the Welfare of the family gave administrative approval of RS 58.94 lakh under the head of the state plan for the construction of the PCC approach to the new ward.
Officials at the Ministry of Health recognizes that in the absence of a 1250 MT path, it will be difficult to operationalize additional bed facilities.
“We expect 300 bed facilities to operate immediately after the deck is cleaned for road construction and transformer installation,” said an official at the Health Secretariat.